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...Belmont Robert D. Kemble Sally Foss, Concord Ernest A. Mitchell Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert C. Rodger Alice Angelo, Newton Donald G. Schnabel, Jr. Charlotte Taylor, Tufts William P. Slichter Katherine Varrell, Smith Frants Sporon-Fiedler Mary Bush, Dedham Edward M. Taylor June Straw, Hampton Falls, N. H. Wilbur F. Tiemann, Jr. Jerry Hess, Newark, Ohio Louis J. Verhaus, II Ornie Lerner, New York, N. Y. Richard P. Wakefield Eleanor Francis, Maplewood, N. J. Miles C. Wambaugh Ann Munson, Providence, R. I. George A. Work, III Roberta Scholz, Radcliffe Benjamin T. Wright Gretchen Merrill, Chestnut...
There were daffy doings last week in an old colonial garden in Virginia. The garden belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali...
Surrealist Dali suggested to his hostess that it would be fun to "enchant" Hampton Manor into a surrealist paradise. Mrs. Crosby was enchanted with the idea. Together they set to work. Their plans called for gigantic statues of daddy longlegs with the faces of Greek goddesses and medieval heroines, "a headless woman from the recipe of a surrealist magician of the Middle Ages," perfumed fountains, loudspeakers making moans from the bushes, corpselike manikins with flowing hair trailing in the waters of a pond. Said Mrs. Crosby: "I am doing this enchanted garden as an experiment with the white magic...
...prosaic note threatened to put the kibosh on this study in sylvan psychopathology. The Second Army Corps announced plans last week to take over 110,000 acres of Caroline County as a field for maneuvers. The area might include Hampton Manor's Freudian fairyland...
...finest. So whatever Muggsy does, you can count on a good job. . . Count Basic tries the experiment of a fast blues in rhumba time. It's called Volcano, and features a swell muted trumpet chorus by Harry Edison. In the ensemble, the brass section takes top honors (OKEH). . . Lionel Hampton's new sextet includes a four-man rhythm section, a fiddle, and a clarinet. Band's VICTOR recording of Altitude is somewhat over-arranged, but the solos are worth hearing. The tune was written by Irving Ashby, Little Dixie '40. . . Record of the week: VICTOR'S reissue of Dickie Wells...